Big Red Barn

Share the joy of storytime with your child.Board book editions of classic picture books are paired with entertaining recordings to create a lively storytelling experience for the youngest child.

BIG RED BARN, Margaret Wise Brown's classic barnyard story is avaliable on cassette for the first time. This lulling, gentle verse about life on the farm will enchant young listeners again and again.

Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.

By the big red barn In the great green field,
There was a pink pig Who was learning to squeal.

There were horses and sheep and goats and geese—and a jaunty old scarecrow leaning on his hoe. And they all lived together by the big red barn. In joyous and exuberant

Pictures, Felicia Bond lovingly evokes Margaret Wise Brown's simple, rhythmic text about the cycle of a day on a farm, where a family of animals peacefully plays and sleeps.

In the barnyard there are roosters and cows, horses and goats, and a pink piglet who is learning to squeal. Margaret Wise Brown's lulling story about a day in the life of a barnyard is now available as a sturdy board book. Felicia Bond's atmospheric illustrations add to the tranquil simplicity of this story.

Children's Literature

Harkening back to 1956, this classic children's book by Margaret Wise Brown is still in print. Her lulling cadences introduce the barnyard animals as they play one day while the children are away. The illustrations carry us from sunrise to nightfall. A perfect choice for older toddlers. The revised drawings in full color will delight kids.

What child hasn t been lulled to sleep -- or at least comforted -- by the gentle rhymes of Margaret Wise Brown s classic Goodnight Moon? Brown, a former teacher, believed that very young children could be fascinated in the simple pleasures of the world around them, and created some of the most enduring and beloved children s books of all time.